Pan-African Journal: Special Worldwide Radio Broadcast

07/16/18 • 179 min

Listen to the Sun. July 15, 2018 special edition of the Pan-African Journal: Worldwide Radio Broadcast hosted by Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire. This program features our regular PANW report with dispatches on the visit of Republic of Sudan President Omer Hassan al-Bashir to Russia for discussions with his counterpart Vladimer Putin; the Israeli Airforce has launched renewed bombing operations against the Palestinian people in Gaza; Syrian military forces are continuing their offensive against counter-revolutionary rebels in the south of the country; and mass demonstrations have erupted on the south side of Chicago in the aftermath of the brutal killing by police of an African American man. In the second and third hours we look at the impact of the United States government's counter-intelligence program (COINTELPRO) in derailing the African American liberation struggle during the 1960s and 1970s.

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Pan-African Journal: Worldwide Radio Broadcast

Listen to the Sat. July 14, 2018 edition of the Pan-African Journal: Worldwide Radio Broadcast hosted by Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire. The program features our regular PANW report with dispatches on the monumental events in the Horn of Africa where the governments of Ethiopia and Eritrea have resolved to end their two decades-long war; the West African state of Gambia is restructuring its security apparatus placing more responsibility on the police; Democratic Republic of Congo politician Jean Pierre Bemba who recently had charges at the International Criminal Court in the Netherlands dismissed is slated to enter the race for the presidency in December; and Guinea-Conakry has been hit by widespread protests over the rise in the price of fuel. In the second and third hours we continue our re-examination of the events surrounding Freedom Summer and the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

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Pan-African Journal: Worldwide Radio Broadcast

Listen to the Sat. July 21, 2018 edition of the Pan-African Journal: Worldwide Radio Broadcast hosted by Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire. The program features our regular PANW report with dispatches on the upcoming national parliamentary and presidential elections in the Southern African nation of Zimbabwe; South Africans have commemorated the centenary of birth of the late former President Nelson Mandela; Mozambique is seeking to make reforms in its electoral system; and the breakaway northern region of Somaliland continues to vie for recognition as a nation-state. In the second and third hours we look back 51-52 years at the rebellions of 1966 and 1967 in Chicago and Detroit.